Example sentences of "one [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , one ought not to underplay significantly the degree of consensus aimed for in England and Wales through consultation and extensive teacher participation in National Curriculum syllabus working groups , even if this system was rather undermined by the government 's rejection of several of the history working party 's recommendations . |
| 2 | But one can have authority to do that which one ought not to do . |
| 3 | These facts do no more , however , than suggest that one ought not to rule out the possibility that Molla Fenari may have made the pilgrimage in company with Seyh Zeyneddin . |
| 4 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 5 | In any case , what kind of general principles would be of help in judging between ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ ? |
| 6 | We might formulate his newly discovered principle as ‘ One ought not to eat too much ’ , but very probably it would be first encountered by him as ‘ Sensible people do n't eat too much ’ . |
| 7 | The generality of the standard will in most cases be local ; few standards are as firmly rooted in the universal constants of human nature as the child 's ‘ One ought not to eat too much ’ . |
| 8 | Then ‘ Be aware ’ entitles him to choose its goal as end and find means to it ; and if the situation is a recurring one , he can generalize the choice by formulating a rule , like the child advancing from ‘ Do n't eat it ’ to ‘ One ought not to eat too much ’ . |
| 9 | Registration is vital ; one may not vote unless one is registered ( ibid , s.1(3) ) even though one is entitled to be registered . |
| 10 | The Evil One may not have come between us and God on a personal level , but as an army he has scattered us all over the place , dumped us unceremoniously in our little religious ghettoes and subcultures , and left us to our own devices . |
| 11 | In Parliament one may say ‘ The right honourable gentleman has misled the house , ’ but one may not say ‘ The right honourable gentleman is a liar ’ . |
| 12 | As mentioned before , the fact that one may not approve of a practice can not be a reason for wishing to have it outlawed . |
| 13 | One may not like or agree with the theory . |
| 14 | It is a rule that one may not use a trump card if one can follow suit . |
| 15 | The previous chapter shows that there is an extremely wide range of roses , and although buying one may not seem a major event , costly mistakes can be made . |
| 16 | A sense of inadequacy and frustration because one may not understand what one is observing nor know what on Earth one can do about it . |
| 17 | No-one can say that such a flood or a greater one may not recur next month , next year or next decade . |
| 18 | How it differs from Liphook , however , is that the head teacher is wise enough to understand that all children are individuals and what works for one may not work so well for another . |
| 19 | Managers have different talents and abilities , and what may work for one may not work for another . |
| 20 | Although one may not agree with it , what he has to say is always considered and well argued . |
| 21 | But one should not ignore the fact that the Party was also developing its economic policies and identifying closely with the unemployed . |
| 22 | But one should not ignore the fact that there were many Catholics who found themselves opposing Franco because of their support for the independence movements . |
| 23 | Naturally , one should not ignore the factor of Central Government legislation which requires any council to implement planning restrictions and to provide services in an economical and rational manner . |
| 24 | One should not forget other commonly used substances , such as bleach and hair dye or nail polish and perfumes , which may well be left out in the bathroom or bedroom . |
| 25 | Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn . |
| 26 | The several causes for his anger have been mentioned above , and one should not forget the concurrent crisis involving the USSR and Hungary . |
| 27 | The one should not imitate the other , and the public sector should be ‘ under social control , directly responsive to social needs ’ . |
| 28 | First , he stresses that one should not view strategic decisions as emerging randomly . |
| 29 | One should not comment on how far the views which conservatives hold are a rationalization of a misogynist stance . |
| 30 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |